| 单词 | breast-peat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreast-peat breast-peat n. Scottish (now rare) (a piece of) peat extracted by digging horizontally into a bank using a spade; cf. foot peat n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3. Sc. National Dict. (at Breist) records this as still in use in Banffshire in 1935. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > turf or peat turfc1300 peat1333 turbaryc1450 turf1510 moor-coal1562 peat moss1775 bear's-muck1784 vag1796 breast-peat1802 gathering-peat1825 sod1825 bat1846 flight1847 mump1887 1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 208 [He] digs the peat, by driving in the spade horizontally with his arms; this peat is, therefore, designed breast-peat. 1915 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 645 The peat was worked from the perpendicular face..; these peats were cut by pressure from the arm and shoulder and were therefore known as ‘breast-peats’. < as lemmas |
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